REPUBLICAN RIDERS CIA OVERSIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100440006-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 22, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
22 June 1980
,_ .,' ,_? By George Lardner Jr.
? and Chazles?R. Babcock ~' .; -` ; ..
- - waahfnftton Post ac~ff Writer ?~
Thg~ House Intelligence Committee
hasti,run into a partisan dispute over'
?'legisiation-- aimed at -strengthening
congsessionaI oversight ?' of ~ the CPA-
. and-other intelligence agencies:.;'
=Reptiblican-members served notice
at:`a~closed-door meeting last week=
that~~tliep want ? to add? riders than
would : satisfy"CIA 'demands ~ for- less
p>lblie? scnttiny and' would provide'
." criminal penalties for sc,me unauthor-
ized?disclosures: ? ? ~ - ~:>-' - :`.,? ~r,?;?:r
?_ The move could "derail any'intellir"
"`.g0nce'legisation unti;' after the elec=
' ? tions, according to several sources. ' ?' "
~if..the ? same time, several Senate
Republicans??allied~ with GOP? presi-'
d?nt3aT candidate Ronald Reagan` aze'~
preparing their own version of a?com-?
pcelierisive 'charter 'for She ?intelli-j
_gei7ee community. - - _
_:: ~ 7t would split the CL~ in' two, set'
ting up one agency to carry out espio-
rime and covert ~ operations abroad
'gad the other to provide intelli~ence-
-. ?The senators have~already drafted ~a
;separate .charter to ;ov~rn _ the FBI's
criminal investigations that would im-
`p~se-. scazcely any=of,the restrictions
_ proposed in an FBI charter bill en-
d4rsed by the ,Carter administration
-?aitd by the FBI itself::The administra-
tibn bill is languishing in .the Senate
J'ndiciary Committee:
-? ',GOP Senators l~I a 1 c o l m tiVailop
aisd ?,Ian Simpson; .both of tiVyoming,
? skid: in telephone-interviews that they
-.do not expect either, of'their~ charter:.
=bills to-pass this year.' ' ,
';They: (said .the ? proposals.: weren't~-
conceived as ::a preview of : a, Reagan ?
administration ,stance on the intelli-,:
Bence community "or, the- 'FBI. But `
other?sources familiar with the draft'?
-iiig said the' bills cieazly reflected the-:
"thinking of key ?Reagan ?advisers, in-.
eluding Sen.. Paul .Laxalt (R.-Nev.), his
national ?-.campai~a chairman?~- and
~Richa=dAllen,:one of hu leading na
`.tonal security advisers..: > n,._;;~,,~et~
Republican platform drafters have.
reviewed the bills;-sources said.. ' :.::
A ~ -limited intelligence-oversight
measure sailed- "through; .the Senate .
this month ? by 89 ~ to ?l, lazgely on the :
-strength of_ a bipartisan. agreement in.,~
that chamber to=-keep?it free~of any
controversialirlders _ ;; ~ , ~; ~;
.The- Democratic majority = o~ the :;~
House?,Intelligence rCommittee; then
agreed in caucus. on a somewhat.:
st;onger=oversight Dill' Zt~wouId give;
the executive branchl less leeway to'
withhold infonnatiori :from; [;ongressr
It would also. required; disclosure to the
House? and Senate'Intelligenct. Com=~:
mittees of: any.lallegedly improperae-
tivities-that come to high-Ievel~atten-
tioii.:withinathe execuive brancla.:The~::
Senate, bilL.would require ~e:-disclo-
sure only of confirmed violations-. of ;
?-_law~ro~intelligence agency rules.__'~.
House committee Chairman Edward
Boland (D-Mass:) had been planning
. to,introduce.-the.Democratic proposal
last week,:but GOP members voiced
their objections at - a1~ closed'?sessiori
' 41~ednesday afternoon..: ,-- '~ ~' -,-'re
According=.to~ several' sources, the
Republicans said they .want to expand
the bill':to include criminal-penalties
for -.unauthorized. ~ disclosure ..of, ?the
names ~ of .CIA-' operatives: abroad and
of-FBl~counter:intelliserice agents:in
this country ,+ .;~
-Some.GOP?."members di?=
close'names~of'agents:~The~~$enate?In-
;telligence :Committce:_a~ilk.=+:start~"?its
'~ ownrheariags~Tuesday~'on;t>se~ same-i
sil~'~'. ~,~ t~'k.:c.~y'A~i7('#.'~.1:i~UC~iR~in"iri
? So far; however;. -the ? GOP~-contin
gent vn=the= i-Fouse-committee? has?re-
fused=they offer; feeling that the over-
sight bill is the only intelligence legis-
lation witl;,a chanee~of.enactmeat this
. year::; ' :,~;f~.;?;~'~. :.~:.. ---
- The Democrats, in_ turn;; are?:afraid`
- that:the addition o? any riders by the
committee will simply. open-tlie flood;
gatseto-a;rush :of?other. amendments
on?.the floor ::,; ~ ?~-
"~Ve. can't put the names-of?a~ents.
' on them and?: get _a bill??throngh this
-year!_maintained~Rep..Les;rlspin (D-
ZVis;)..`_`Othei:,, people -will want? to ?add-
on protections;foc the?rights?of ~neri--
cans and things.likethat.';,;;_ _ ;~
The House committee is scheduled
to resume the. debate Tuesday. after.-
In the Senate, meanwhile,`the GOP'
senators have been circulating copies ~
of. theirs separate intelligence and FBI
charters seeking ~ cospodsors: 6ources
familiar with the drafting said the two
proposals were desi;ne;i as ;`state-
ments of principle" growing out of ~a
Republican National Committee;'~oi=
icY?st